Car-wheel



(N0 Modell) J. G. BEAGH.

GAB. WHEEL.

v M 18,1886. E 9 Patented y UNITED STATES PATENT ;FFICE..

JAMES G. BEACH, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

CA R-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATIONfOIIEI% part of Letters Patent N0. 342,169,date61 May 18, 1'886.

Appiication fi1ed Marcl1 31, 1886. Seria1 N0. 1975332, (N0 model.)

T0 all w7wm z't may concerm' Be ib known thab I, JAMES C. BEACH, of Bloomfield, in bhe connty ot' Essex and State 0f New Jersey, have invented certain new and uselni Im provements in Gar and Loeomotive YVheels; and I (10 herebydeclarethat Ehe following is a fu1l, ciear, and exacb description of the invention, whieh will enable obhers skilled in the art to whieh in appertains to make and use the same'.

The presenb invention relates to that dass 0f car and locomotive wheels in which the Lire is removablyseenred t0 the bodyof Ehe whee1 by mechanieal means.

The objeet 0f the invention is 130 provide a safe and secureattachment of the tire to the body of the wheel 0f such Rind that the tire can be readiiy removed withoub material injury 130 the body; am]. the invention consists, generaily, in loeking the peripheries 0f he side piates of the body 0f the whee1 over fianges for1ned 011 a web 0f the tire and supporting the joinb by annular rings bearing againsb the side plates and adjaeent the tire, and seeured in place by boits 01 rivets passing through the whee].

The inx'entaion is illusbrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fignre l is an elevation of the inner side er face of the whee], and Fig. 2 is a centrai section 0f the same.

In the drawings, A represents the tire, preferably made of cast-steci by forging or rolling, and provided with an annuiar web, w, projeeting fron1 its inner surface toward the hub of the wheel! a a are flanges pro iecting lateral] y from t-he web, preferably near its end.

B is the hnb of the wheel, cast er forged fr01n i10ii 01 stee], and provided with a centrally-located annular flange 01 web, b, 01" tl1e desired thiekness.

D and D are side plates, preferabiy 0f wronghtiron 01 steel, and having their inner and onter peripheries respectiveiy eonneebed with the hab and ehe tire.

G is a c0re or 1ing inelosed lateral] y by the side plates an 1 verticaily by the hnb and the tire.

E and E are annular strengthening-rings 0f stee1 or wrought-iron 'Ihe several parts above described, and shown in the drawings, after having been shaped to the proper relative sizes and proporbions t0 fit together t0 forn1 the wheel, may be conveniently brought together and united as follows: Tl1e core C may first be forced into position between the hub anti tire. Then the plates D and D are bronght into their respective posibions, bheir inner peripheries overlapping the web b 0f the hub, und. their 0nter peripheries overlapping be web w of the tire, and shouldered over its lateral flanges a, forming recesses bebween t.he under side ot' the tire anti the shonlders of be plates. 'Ihe strengthening-rings E and E are forced into these recesses, and these several parts are se eured together, preferabiy by three series 0f boltstwo passing through alle side piates and Ehe web 0f the hnb and one passing through the rings E an(1 E, the side plates, and the web of ohe tire. These series 0f b01ts are des ignated in the drawings, respeetively, by the letters (P, d, and d, and the bolts are drawn home and secured by nuts, whereby be severa1 parts of the wheei are brought into close contact and are securely united together.

lt is remarked that as this inventaion relates specially to the means of uniting the side plates 0f the wheel 130 the tire and t0 nhe strengthening 0f this union er joinb, in is in materiai in what special way Ehe side piate's are nnited t0 the hab, o1 whether a centra1 c0re is employed 01 omitbed.

The drawings show a constrncbion 0f hnb in whieh nhe side plates can be employed either witl1 01 without the central c0re. In ease the central core is nsed ohe centm1 web 01 1 the hnb mighb be 0111itted, and a fiange formed ontside 0f and overiapping one of ti1e side plates be snbstituted in its place, in Which construction the c0re shonld extend to the hub and be in eontacb therewith, and would furnish a bearing f0i Ehe side plates, and the eore, side plates, und flange be securelyboited 130- gebher. \Vhen a eore is nsed, ib is preferred that it be made 0f compressed paper 01 other slighti y elastic and streng material.

In the eonstruetion described and shown the tire is effectually seenred t0 the body 0f the whee1 by shouldering or bending the side plates near tbeir outer peripheries over the lateral fianges formed 011 the web of thetire.

secure were ib not f0r the liability of breakage of the side plates between their shoulders and the under side 0f the tire,where they are Sl1b jected t0 great strain. It is 110 greatly decrease this liability and to make this part 0f the wheel secure and safe that the rings E and E are fitted closely into the recesses between the tire and the shoulders of the side plates'f By passing the series 0f bolts d through the rings E and E, the side plates, and the web of the tire, and drawing and holding these part-s into c1ose contact the union of the body of the -Whee1 and the tire is made secure and sbrong. 15 This would render the union of these parts NVhat is claimed as new is- The eombination, in a car-wheel, ofa flanged web pr'ojecting inwardly from the tire and side plates shouldered over the flanged web, with annular rings located between t-he tire 20 und the shoulders 0f the plates, und secured in place by bolts passing through the wheel substantial] y as and f0r the purpose Set forth' JAMES C. BEAOH.

\Vitnessesz ROBT. H. DUNCAN, H. F. NEWBURY. 

